New Counterintelligence Strategy: Focus on Cyber

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http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2015/11/new-counterintelligence-strategy-focus-cyber-espionage/123880/

By Mohana Ravindranath
Nextgov.com
November 19, 2015

A new national counterintelligence strategy aims to learn from the recent 
Office of Personnel Management hack, attributed to state-backed Chinese 
actors, which compromised the personal information of 22 million current, 
past and future federal employees and contractors.

The 2016 strategy, published this week, broadly outlines a plan for 
detecting, mitigating and preventing such threats, both from "foreign 
intelligence entities" and from malicious employees.

“As the recent cyberintrusion against the Office of Personnel Management 
illustrated, even federal agencies that hold sensitive but not classified 
data are at increased risk of being targeted by foreign adversaries," said 
a statement signed by President Barack Obama at the top of the DNI 
document.

"The expanding and interconnected nature of espionage threats" needs a 
unified government response to "safeguard our most valuable security and 
economic information," the statement stated.

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